Indian Education

The possibility of an increase of primary training in Bengal says the Resolution) " depends partly upon the salaries paid to primary teachers being sufficient to induce men to undergo a course of training." That Government is fully alive to the importance of improvea ment in this matter is clear and it is merely our desire to remind its critics of the difficulties in the way and of the inevitab [...] When the schools endevour to adapt themselves to the needs of the time it is the duty as well as the interest of the employers of labour to encourage their efforts and to assist them to enlarge their means and apparatus. [...] It is unsatisfactory however to call into operation the ordinary poor-law machinery for the solution of what so far as the children's meals are concerned is a problem which should be dealt with in close connexion with the school and under the personal supervision of the teachers and of the representatives of the local education authority concerned. [...] The Bishop of Madras In a very valable paper on Indian education in the Nineteenth Century for January writes: After all the main problem in India for the statesman and educationist as well as for the religious teacher resolves itself into the question how to change and elevate the character of the mass of the people." I believe this to be absolutely true ; so that the ultimate aim of the w [...] He has to realize in a new sense his own place in the universe and his true relation to the laws by which it is governed; he has at the same time to learn the place of India among the nations and the scope of the Empire of which India now forms a part.